Hello Autumn ....

The trees here are looking tired now but the weather still keeps playing tricks I've a philadelphus trying to flower again also a Weigela ,French and Runner beans are the best they've been all season and would you believe after a summer free of aphids and the like I've just got a family of greenfly appear on my Roses in the last day or so

 

I've got a Weigela flowering again too, and also a poor mixed up Azalea starting to bloom as well!

 

There'll be no colour in the trees here this year, with next to no rain since April the leaves are just drying out and dropping. Everything is brown in colour, trees, hedgerows and banks, and lawns aren't looking to good either.

 

The conkers are earlier this year because of the mild spring, they flowered earlier.

I always thought good Autumn colour followed dry sunny conditions with cold nights.

 

I have primroses, spring flowering clematis and roses in bloom. Last Thursday I saw violets and clover in the hedgerow when I was picking blackberries and sloes. There were also more Robin's pincushion galls on the wild roses than I think I've ever seen in one year. Don't know how the plants will cope with the winter but it's certainly been an interesting year so far!

 

But not as dry as they have been here Pete. Because of the lack of rain trees have been shutting down for the last month to six weeks. Leaves are just turning brown, curling up and dropping.

 

It's not Autumn till the fat lady singes her leaves in the brazier.

 

Ahhhhh so that's what they're called

 

This is my favourite time of the year in the garden
Colour everywhere you look and the smell of autumn

 

They have other names too (Bedeguar gall or moss gall) but I was first told Robin's pincushion and that's my favourite.